Sometimes 2017 felt like something out of “The Twilight Zone,” where one couldn’t believe the weird thing that was happening next.
“The Twilight Zone,” as the show’s creator and narrator Rod Serling intoned, was “the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge.” Sounds like 2017 in a nutshell.
Sometimes it took a trip to the movies to make sense of the world. In the best movies of 2017, a strong woman could battle hate with love, Americans could have truths about race laid out unambiguously, poverty and injustice could be looked in the eye, and people could enjoy freedom to love whom we want and to print what needs to be said.